Rails News

  • Getting Things Done with Active Record

    Mike Clark has a great article on how to dig deeper into Active Record by using acts_as_nested_set and find_by_sql. On the notion of using SQL in an OO model, he...

  • Rails 0.13: 225+ features/fixes in 75 days!

    After the longest gap between releases since Rails was made public and after more than 225 fixes and new features, the final major release before the 1.0 milestone has arrived....

  • Not knowing where it hurts in ASP.NET

    Demetrius Nunes is feeling the pain of going back to maintenance on an ASP.NET project after spending considerable time in Ruby on Rails. He writes about why there might not...

  • Rolling with Ruby on Rails in Japanese

    The lovely tanabe has translated the also lovely Curt Hibbs’ excellent Rolling with Ruby on Rails article to Japanese. Great work. Both of you.

  • 'These folks have their priorities all wrong'

    Brian McCallister is frustrated that Ruby on Rails is taking away his joyful life as a tool smith. Always creating new libraries and frameworks. Now with all that stuff taken...

  • \'You\'re probably sick of hearing this\'

    Luke Sutton can’t help but share his recent discovery: OK look, I don’t wanna seem like a total fan-boy and I know the hype has been almost too much. I...

  • Rails Day winners have been found

    The 24 hours allotted to create an interesting Rails application from scratch yielded a ton of create entries to Rails Day. The three winners have now been declared, along with...

  • 'Agile development seems natural'

    Joe O’Brien is teaching Ruby on Rails to the consultants at his company and is especially enjoying how the language and framework two-pack makes agile development so natural: Ruby and...

  • Ruby on Rails running on a Zaurus PDA

    From our Japanese friends comes a great series of pictures showing Ruby on Rails running on the Zaurus PDA! Rails has gone mobile, baby. That’s pretty darn cool. In a...

  • Rico does scrolling table on top of Prototype

    Sam Stephenson and I met the Sabre team at the O’Reilly/Adaptive Path Ajax Summit a few months back. Their presentation of a scrolling table was part of their very nice...